METAFONT for Beginners
Third Draft, Revision `U'
(17:40 GMT +10:00 Fri 27 August 1993)

• Contents
• Scope
• Where you can obtain this file
• Reference
• Acknowledgements
• Motivation
• What is ?
• Getting 's Attention
  • Typing at 's `**' prompt
  • Typing on the Command Line
  • `Please type another input file name: '
  
  
• Base files
  • The plain base
  • Loading a Different Base
  • The Linkage Trick
  • Making a Base; the Local Modes file
  
  
• Fonts
  • Proof Mode
  • Localfont Mode
  • Font Naming
  • Using a New Font in TEX
  • Magnification (and Resolution)
  • GFtoPK
  • Storing the Fonts
  • Environment Variables for emTEX and web2c
  
  
• Some Limitations of
• What Went Wrong?
  • Big fonts, but Unwanted
  • Consequences of Some Typing Errors on 's command line
  • Finding the Fonts
  • MakeTeXPK
  • Strange Paths
  
  
• Mail List
• Conclusion